[Aqualist] Invitation to workshop on Australasian climate variability of the past 2, 000 years

[Steven J Phipps]

Dear colleagues

This forthcoming workshop on Australasian climate variability of the past 
2,000 years may be of interest.

Registration details are given below...

Workshop dates

27-29 October 2015 - 4th PAGES AUS2K workshop - Auckland, New Zealand 
(National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)

Australasian palaeoclimate of the last 2000 years: Inter-comparison of 
climate field reconstruction methodologies, modelling, and data synthesis 
approaches

Topic of workshop:

The Australasian (Aus2k) Working Group is currently supporting the wider 
goals of the second phase of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) 2k initiative 
to undertake reconstructions of global climate fields for the last two 
millennia:

http://www.pages-igbp.org/workinggroups/2k-network/intro

Recent efforts have seen an expansion of the Aus2k database to include 
non-annually resolved data, new data selection criteria, and critical 
evaluation of proxy archives using modern climate data for calibration. 
That effort has now opened new horizons for multi proxy synthesis 
techniques, the generation of new simulations of the last 2000 years using 
state-of-the-art climate models, and palaeoclimate data-model comparisons.

This workshop will focus on progress for key developments the Aus2k 
initiative, and will include overviews of:

1. Synthesis and comparison of annually and non-anually resolved 
palaeoclimate data within the Australasian region;

2. Results from projects focused on inter-comparison of climate field 
reconstructions undertaken as multi-institutional efforts; and

3. Comparison of climate reconstructions with paleoclimate model 
simulations.

The workshop also seeks to strengthen ties between the PAGES Aus2k and 
Ocean2k working group:

http://www.pages-igbp.org/workinggroups/ocean2k/intro

We invite interested researchers to submit an abstract for inclusion in 
this workshop. There will be a poster session to accommodate a range of 
research.

Funding

The PAGES IPO has provided limited support for New Zealand and Australian 
researchers to attend this workshop, and applicants will be assessed 
during the abstract submission process.

Publication opportunity

A special issue of Climate of the Past collating the research from this 
workshop is anticipated, with the prospect that several papers may be 
asked to join the global PAGES 2k special issue of Climate of the Past in 
2016.

Confirmed speakers include:

Mandy Freund: Progress on developing a temperature spatial field 
reconstruction for Australia over the past millennium

Steven Phipps: Reconstruction of climate fields for the Australasian 
region using data assimilation

Drew Lorrey: Multiproxy climate reconstruction for the South Pacific and 
Southern Hemisphere from a New Zealand perspective

Nerilie Abram: Comparison of coral, speleothem and ice core records from 
Australasia and Antarctica

Bronwyn Dixon: Spatial and temporal coverage of archives of climate and 
environmental change in Australia

Ben Henley: A Pacific-basin wide reconstruction of the Interdecadal 
Pacific Oscillation

Duncan Ackerley: New, high-resolution simulations of the past 2000 years 
conducted using the ACCESS climate system model

Helen McGregor: A global synthesis of low-resolution SST reconstructions 
spanning the past 2000 years

Paul Augustinus: High-resolution maar crater records of Auckland

Marcus Vandergoes: The Lake Ohau palaeoclimate reconstruction project

Please find the abstract submission form here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19ORN4GjPpK6lQVc-Wj68ZPbe-SPKnTQ3spZ0TXtJgl8/edit​

Note that abstract submission will remain open until 15 August 2015.

We look forward to seeing you in Auckland!

Regards,
The Aus2k Steering Committee